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7 Shocking Photos Reveal What 100 Years Of Climate Change Has Done To Arctic Glaciers
In the early 1900s, Arctic glaciers were nature's most mysterious and undiscovered wonders. Over 100 years of research, exploration, and exploitation later, the glaciers have become a haunting testament to the global warming effects.
Christian Åslund, a Swedish photojournalist who works with Greenpeace, gathered some early photos of glaciers ice in Svalbard, Norway from the Norwegian Polar Institute, and juxtaposed them next to his own photos of the same locations from 2002. The differences in these before and after photos were unbelievable. He's using the photo series to promote #MyClimateAction, a National Geographic campaign encouraging discussion about climate change and as a protest against Norwegian oil companies drilling in the melting ice in the Arctic region.
See each troubling comparison below, and sign Save The Arctic's petition against Arctic oil here, in hopes of stopping the devastating consequences of global warming.
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taken pictures in winter for first one summer in second what a fake scare mongering knobs
Incredibly sad. My boys are 4 and 7 years. What kind of struggles they will have to face in their adulthood Because of our creedines!???
None. You have a less ice infested planet teaming with flora and fauna. What else can you blame your failures on is up to you. This aint one
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It would have been interesting to see photos a hundred years apart during the last ice age....
This is obviously FAKE NEWS though created by new age green radicals photoshopping to try and bring down the not for profit fossil fuel companies which deliver the only true source of energy available for our society.
This is not the exact same location. In the new photo he sitting in the place where there was water before, and where there was snow before, there is now water :-/
While this is an impressive photo project, and the decline of ice is alarming, I am not sure if these photos can illustrate climate change. It is typical arrogance of humans to draw easy conclusions. I think we still only partly understand the dynamics of whether, and that includes decline and rise of ice masses in different regions of the world. Rallyin against artic oil drilling is another story, though, since we are speaking about very fragile ecosystems. Anyway, the photos are impressive!
I partially agree with you. Indeed we cannot draw any conclusion from these few pictures (there can be local, seasonal, annual variation). But we (i.e. the scientist) understand now pretty well the dynamics and icecaps are effectively regressing
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We are not destroying our planet. We are just making it so we can't live on it.
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The most disturbing thing about this is that there are people who still deny that climate change is being caused by humans.
Really? I've been downvoted for expressing the scientific consensus agreed upon by over 100 international government agencies? Smh
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The earth has a natural cycle of heating and cooling. We are, even without human intervention, in a warming cycle. However, humans have greatly increased this rate of warming,which scientists have proven. It would eventually have made it this far on its own, but 100 years? We are to blame.
The new problem is not how and why did it happened? It is how can this be stopped further and recovered back? Many of the actions which we humans need to take are know to us but the life style of today has made it to be neglected. Still one small effort from all the humans on planet can help to make things more better than before.
This has happened time and time again over millions of years, did they call it climate change back then, I think it is the world doing it's own clean up thing over these next few hundred years, get rid of 99.9% of us humans and only the strongest animals will survive, and it is giving the earth time to recuperate so all this can start all over again.
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
We were still rising out of the Little Ice Age 100 years ago so of Course there were bigger glaciers then. And if one looks back to the Holocene Climate Optimum there was NO summer ice for several centuries, ie, even lower than things are in the Arctic now.
While these obviously show the huge difference and the alarming lack of ice, I do wonder whether the before and after photos were taken during the same seasons of the year.
Glaciers do not change from season to season, they are incredibly massive. They last for thousands of years,...at least until now.
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More warming information-----------------------https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/
If you look at Earth on Google maps, there is no such thing as the "northern ice caps" any more. Greenland is still white, but everything else is just blue sea...
@pplonia #Climate Cabal My latest book, “Human Caused Global Warming”. Available on ‘Amazon.ca’. www.drtimball.com
I agree with recycling, reducing emissions, etc but sometimes we meddle too much and are messing with the delicate balance of nature which we did NOT create and should not _uck with. Now we have too many wolves in my area because the animal rights people were outraged at their decline and had them protected. Now they will have to be killed off because of their increased numbers. Don't meddle with Nature, she can be a real b***h when angered.
Goldilocks zones for liberals... they blame the weather on you.
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Picture can express a thousand words, and our ignorance will be our own demise. The longer we continue to ignore the signs the worse it will continue to become. Yes... We are !@#$%^.
Look at this site: http://www.gletscherarchiv.de; almost the same and it's online since years...
What should be melting are the hearts of the global powers and policy makers. And those who think climate change is a "myth", look at this!
It's, in fact, the policy makers that are pushing this agenda in the first place.
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Faster than Expected February 9, 2017 “But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again ~ Mark Z. Danielewski As I’ve pointed out previously, I doubt there will be a human on Earth by mid-2026. Indeed, I doubt there will be complex life on this planet by then. It’ll be a small world, as was the case in the wake of each of the five prior Mass Extinction events on Earth. Bacteria, fungi, and microbes will dominate. As I’ve pointed out repeatedly, humans will lose habitat on Earth before the last human dies. The final human probably will die after running out of canned food in a bunker. And he or she will not know human extinction has occurred. According to the Pentagon’s JASON Group, the situation for life on Earth will be far worse than I have ever described. A well-informed insider there wrote on 19 Decembe
New York City marks the southernmost boundary of an ice sheet that mantled much of North America 22,000 years ago. Humans didn't cause that. The earth was just doing its thing. Climate measuring instruments only go back as far as the middle of the 19th century and that's not enough evidence to substantiate the claim the photos and this article suggest.
Scientists do not simply rely on "climate measuring instruments", they measure ice core samples, bacterial growth, and hundreds of other things.
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While this is an impressive photo project, and the decline of ice is alarming, I am not sure if these photos can illustrate climate change. It is typical arrogance of humans to draw easy conclusions. I think we still only partly understand the dynamics of whether, and that includes decline and rise of ice masses in different regions of the world. Rallyin against artic oil drilling is another story, though, since we are speaking about very fragile ecosystems. Anyway, the photos are impressive!
I partially agree with you. Indeed we cannot draw any conclusion from these few pictures (there can be local, seasonal, annual variation). But we (i.e. the scientist) understand now pretty well the dynamics and icecaps are effectively regressing
Load More Replies... We are not destroying our planet. We are just making it so we can't live on it.
Load More Replies... The most disturbing thing about this is that there are people who still deny that climate change is being caused by humans.
Really? I've been downvoted for expressing the scientific consensus agreed upon by over 100 international government agencies? Smh
Load More Replies... The earth has a natural cycle of heating and cooling. We are, even without human intervention, in a warming cycle. However, humans have greatly increased this rate of warming,which scientists have proven. It would eventually have made it this far on its own, but 100 years? We are to blame.
The new problem is not how and why did it happened? It is how can this be stopped further and recovered back? Many of the actions which we humans need to take are know to us but the life style of today has made it to be neglected. Still one small effort from all the humans on planet can help to make things more better than before.
This has happened time and time again over millions of years, did they call it climate change back then, I think it is the world doing it's own clean up thing over these next few hundred years, get rid of 99.9% of us humans and only the strongest animals will survive, and it is giving the earth time to recuperate so all this can start all over again.
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
We were still rising out of the Little Ice Age 100 years ago so of Course there were bigger glaciers then. And if one looks back to the Holocene Climate Optimum there was NO summer ice for several centuries, ie, even lower than things are in the Arctic now.
While these obviously show the huge difference and the alarming lack of ice, I do wonder whether the before and after photos were taken during the same seasons of the year.
Glaciers do not change from season to season, they are incredibly massive. They last for thousands of years,...at least until now.
Load More Replies... More warming information-----------------------https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/
If you look at Earth on Google maps, there is no such thing as the "northern ice caps" any more. Greenland is still white, but everything else is just blue sea...
@pplonia #Climate Cabal My latest book, “Human Caused Global Warming”. Available on ‘Amazon.ca’. www.drtimball.com
I agree with recycling, reducing emissions, etc but sometimes we meddle too much and are messing with the delicate balance of nature which we did NOT create and should not _uck with. Now we have too many wolves in my area because the animal rights people were outraged at their decline and had them protected. Now they will have to be killed off because of their increased numbers. Don't meddle with Nature, she can be a real b***h when angered.
Goldilocks zones for liberals... they blame the weather on you.
Load More Replies... Picture can express a thousand words, and our ignorance will be our own demise. The longer we continue to ignore the signs the worse it will continue to become. Yes... We are !@#$%^.
Look at this site: http://www.gletscherarchiv.de; almost the same and it's online since years...
What should be melting are the hearts of the global powers and policy makers. And those who think climate change is a "myth", look at this!
It's, in fact, the policy makers that are pushing this agenda in the first place.
Load More Replies... Faster than Expected February 9, 2017 “But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again ~ Mark Z. Danielewski As I’ve pointed out previously, I doubt there will be a human on Earth by mid-2026. Indeed, I doubt there will be complex life on this planet by then. It’ll be a small world, as was the case in the wake of each of the five prior Mass Extinction events on Earth. Bacteria, fungi, and microbes will dominate. As I’ve pointed out repeatedly, humans will lose habitat on Earth before the last human dies. The final human probably will die after running out of canned food in a bunker. And he or she will not know human extinction has occurred. According to the Pentagon’s JASON Group, the situation for life on Earth will be far worse than I have ever described. A well-informed insider there wrote on 19 Decembe
New York City marks the southernmost boundary of an ice sheet that mantled much of North America 22,000 years ago. Humans didn't cause that. The earth was just doing its thing. Climate measuring instruments only go back as far as the middle of the 19th century and that's not enough evidence to substantiate the claim the photos and this article suggest.
Scientists do not simply rely on "climate measuring instruments", they measure ice core samples, bacterial growth, and hundreds of other things.
Load More Replies... 